Matt Ferderer

Tell more please.

I’ve always preferred leg day Friday because I’m more active on weekends which results in less soreness then

That video may be old but never gets old

YouTube video by Jennifer Black-Moir Wil Wheaton - Why it's awesome to be a nerd

Violet, the girl @wilwheaton.net was talking to in this video, would be 12 now. I hope she's a nerd, and loving things the way we nerds do. (Sorry we're still on fossil fuels, young lady -- we're working on it. And happy belated birthday, Wil!)

Windows 11 & the “new” Outlook seem to have so many bugs.

Some days it amazes me how this is the 2nd largest market cap company in the world & these are 2 of their main products that every business uses.

I depend on it as a way to copy multiple items & then paste them. Great as a note drawer too.

Also the paste image as text (Powertoys maybe?) is chef’s kiss. I do wish it handled line breaks better but still awesome.

The phone with spikes into the face is very evocative

I was able to take my Dad to a Vikings preseason game last year.

We didn’t get to do a lot of stuff but we got to walk & drive around town, eat outside and meet a few people.

The people couldn’t have been nicer & it was great to show him what the city is really like.

❤️ the Twin Cities

Summer cleaning!

Disabling auto-renew on the graveyard of domains I swore I’d build something on and admitting they will never become real projects. 🪦

[–]JDRoc 32 points 9y ago What was the initial reason for the goggles? And did you keep them because you had to, or did you like the look? [–]officialchicagobulls[S] 298 points 9y ago I got them because I was legally blind. I wore em because of that for a few years. After a few years I got Lasik surgery, but I kept wearing them without the perscription lenses because I had grandparents and parents come up to me and thank me for wearing them. Their kids and grandkids would get made fun of by wearing protective eyewear playing sports, so I kept wearing them to help make it cool to wear goggles for the kids.

former NBA player Horace Grant kept wearing goggles on the court even after getting lasik surgery for just that reason

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Snipd has this. By far the best podcast app imo past few years

Oh but these audio AI summaries of books are not good.

Highly recommend not doing those with these really bad AI generated podcasts. This is an example on how not to use AI.

Headphone icon that has your phone read text when clicked

Way to go @oreilly.bsky.social

Glad to see you can have the books read to you aloud.

Looks like on ios devices you need to go download premium voices first.

Not as good as Edge’s built in but decent. Typical Apple is 5 years behind on tech

I wonder if users would like & use if a feature where they could click and see the cluster a post belongs to, then decide if they want to see any more from that cluster.

It sounds similar to “see more/less like this” feature on other sites but more transparent.

I think you need to make sure it has something for all us jealous geeks to look at this and say “6k for this build and you didn’t even …”

😬 you’re not wrong

Really like the first one. Submit is over used

🤯 next please do those awful hard plastic packages that I am forced to use a box cutter on.

YouTube video by Microsoft Developer Your API is not an MCP | DEMFP786

Nice short theory talk on building a MCP server for your API and how to think of their different use cases and audiences.

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Is there a good way to use Trello?

I’m use to Jira, Azure Devops, Asana. All are so much better ux then Trello imo & the first 2 aren’t very intuitive for newbies. But managing projects is so much better…

I don’t understand why Trello is popular

Did not know this existed. Down a rabbit hole I go 🕳️

Anyone have a great resource for trying out any of the new #MSBuild things from today?

The multiple agent demos with GitHub, Figma & Linux containers in @vscode.dev looked really cool.

Tayberries?! Have not heard of them. Got me on a wiki rabbit hole where I also saw Logan berries

Great conversation. Much more to it than the headlines.

Rhubarb almond cake on a plate

Delicious!

Mine doesn’t look as nice and I didn’t have almonds for on top.

I did 2 cups of rhubarb.

Thank you for sharing!

Did Microsoft Edge 136.0.3240.50 just break css using max-content for width?

Fixing our app after a bug was found in only this specific version of Edge, no other browsers.

Using max-content is causing the container widths to be shrunk like they got stuck in a trash compactor on the Death Star.

He told the audience to imagine a barrel with roughly 5.8 billions of balls — one for everybody in the world. Each ball will determine important factors (e.g., your birthplace, IQ level, gender, ethnicity, skills, parents) in your “new life.” “If you could put your ball back into the barrel, and they took out 100 balls at random — and you had to from pick one of those, would you put your ball back in?” he asked. In addition to not knowing which ball you’ll get, there’s another catch: “Of those 100 balls, five of them will be American. So if you want to be in this country, you’ll only have five balls to choose from,” Buffett explained. “Half of them will be women and half men. Half of them will be below average in intelligence and half above average in intelligence.” He asked the students again: Do you still want to risk taking a second shot at life? “Most of you won’t want to put your ball back,” he said. “So what you’re really saying is, ’I’m the luckiest 1% of the world right now, sitting in this room — the top 1% of the world.”

Warren Buffett spoke at my school and gave this piece of wisdom that I think about often. It's lucky to be lucky, and it's even luckier to recognize how lucky you are.

Perfect cake idea for next weekend! Thank you

Any suggestions how to help or what the alternatives are?

Semi related question. While at 18F was there ever any talk of getting rid of social security numbers or changing how they’re done. I feel like they’re used as super secret identity passwords except most people have had their ssn stolen/leaked multiple times & they shouldn’t be treated as security.